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 2011
documents even more cases of AKC's refusal to honor
Registration Certificates as ownership titles, Co-ownership or
Buyer-Seller contracts, and its acceptance of known fraudulent
litters.
March 2011 update, Barbara J. Andrews,
Editor-In-Chief,
TheDogPress.com
The AKC Registration Department said if they get
an application to register a dog believed to be out of AKC
registered parents, they will register it, despite any contract
between the seller and buyer. Whoa!
Here’s the simple stuff that makes simpletons out of us all. In
mid-March I was about to send a registration certificate to the
new owners of a pet puppy that had gone oversized.
Problem was, I had already named and registered him, knowing he
would be my next BIS winner! Okay laugh, the joke’s on me.
There was no way to “limit” him on the certificate and I hadn’t
thought to have a contract ready when the out-of-state family
arrived. Sure there was a quick solution, I
called AKC Registrations and finally worked my
way up to the very nice supervisor who said if they owned him,
they could breed
him. Period. I should have known better than to ask. Here's the bottom
line:
AKC does not honor
Buyer-Seller or Co-ownership contracts. If there is a
dispute, AKC only honors court
decisions.
But it could!
Motor Vehicles, Deed Registrars,
Title Companies; all honor Certificates Of Title and
recorded transfers. That is what an AKC Registration Certificate used to be. Now it is a
worthless piece of paper, not a title or certificate of
ownership!
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We receive dozens of emails like the one below. Hundreds of documents on file but first, let me prove the point with
a perfect score; three
out of three personal examples.
In the extensively documented Haddad case, no amount of pleading or threats could stop AKC from
registering an Akita litter allegedly from a puppy bitch we had sold to Mexico. By
chance, I learned the bitch had been “used” to falsify
an O’BJ litter when a prospective buyer contacted me for
background on the dam of the litter in Mexico City. The bitch was
too young to have whelped a litter and in fact, she had been
returned to me at 11 months of age on the grounds that
she was "spooky." Having previously sold a dog to Jorge
Haddad that he showed to #1 dog All Breeds in Mexico & Top Akita
here, I accepted his assertion.
As it turned out, she was head shy, obviously abused. We took
her straight
from the airport to be vetted so it was a matter of record that
she was in good weight and condition, i.e. could not possibly
have whelped a litter.
My reaction to the news, which I confirmed through another
source in Mexico, started a chain of events which revealed
major differences between the Mexican and American Kennel Club.
I called Thelma
Von Thaden, President of Mexico’s Federacion Canofila Mexicana,
who in turn worked with Pamela Mathews, a department head in AKC
Registrations. The Mexican Kennel Club Board Of Directors
cancelled registrations on the litter even though the attorneys
representing Haddad and litter purchasers were “lined up in the
hallway” that morning when Thelma called me before the
board met.
Conversely, AKC registered the litter out of my AKC bitch and an
unknown AKC sire.
When I challenged that, knowing Ms. Von Thaden had worked
closely with
Ms. Mathews, one pompous, sputtering, VP
actually blurted out the excuse that “AKC has no reciprocity
with Mexico”!!
In another case, a co-owned bitch was bred without my knowledge,
the litter registered and advertised in his local newspaper. A friend mailed me a copy
of the ad. I called AKC. The blue slips were so
obviously forged, the lady in registrations took it upon herself
to check for a previous litter. Sure enough there was a previous
litter and the microfilm
showed even more preposterous forgeries plus a terrible lapse in AKC oversight for having ever registered the first litter out of
a 12 months old puppy bitch!
April Fool! Both litters stood as registered even though AKC
acknowledge that my signatures had been forged over a dozen times.
Why am I sharing this? It just seemed like the right time of
year to do so. And because the following email is so well-stated
and
representative of those received from readers.
“I learned a good lesson 10 years ago when I sold a male
puppy on a neuter contract that specified the puppy was to be
neutered within 2 months of the sale and withheld the papers.
Four months had passed, and the owner's veterinarian directed
his staff to not discuss the matter with me on the phone, so I
hired an attorney and sent a letter to the vet advising him that
legal proceedings would include him for attempting to violate
the terms of a written contract. My attorney sent a letter to
the owner threatening to file for court proceedings within 10
days for failure to comply with the written sale agreement. She
had the dog neutered and sent confirmation to the attorney.
“Since that time, I will never send a puppy or adult out to a
new owner until I have first had the dog spayed
or neutered
first and allowed sufficient time for recovery. While AKC's
provision certainly opens the door for contamination of a
genetic pool with dogs that may carry serious genetic defects,
and they should know better, frankly WE SHOULD ALL KNOW BETTER
than to assume that John Q Public will honor an spay/neuter
contract or even cares if they ever get papers.” Sig: Patricia McCann
The message is clear. He who depends on AKC to honor a
Buyer/Seller or Co-ownership contract is a Fool. See AKC
co-ownership and contract information below.
Barbara J. Andrews, Editor
http://www.thedogpress.com/Editorials/09041-Fools-Contracts.asp
#11113
see 4 other "Prime" examples of
Pedigree Fraud plus the Nov. 2011
Davino Case of false AKC registration
AKC strongly discourages co-ownerships. According to this
cautionary warning on the AKC website,
http://www.akc.org/reg/contract.cfm current
3/26/09, if you enter into any kind of contract with a dog
person, you’re on your own. Here’s what AKC says about
contracts.
“Many AKC-registrable
dogs are bred, sold, or transferred on the basis of certain
conditions, restrictions, or understood agreements between
the interested parties. Some breeders sell their puppies on
Spay-Neuter Contracts, which require that the dog be spayed
or neutered by a certain age. Others enter into co-ownership
contracts with new owners or into Stud Contracts with the
owner of a male dog. Some dogs are sold with the agreement
that they will be shown to a certain level of achievement in
AKC events.
”The AKC does not and cannot enter into arbitration when an
understanding between buyers, sellers, or co-owners goes
wrong. The AKC will abide by the decision of the court if
the case is litigated. We advise that all contracts be
thoroughly examined and understood before the transaction is
completed. For more information, see our
Procedures for Registration Matters.”
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